Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indicative of the Labor Party's policy: "Capital Levy is dropped pro tem. To be brought up later but not to be introduced until after the permanent staff of the Treasury have been consulted. In foreign policy the Premier intends to use the League of Nations as his main instrument to establish and maintain world peace and thereby to set an example to other nations. He will also vigorously ostracize secret diplomacy. In general his policy will be to promote the welfare of the workers "by fair and constitutional means...
...machine invented at the Bureau of Standards, Washington, can measure a projectile's speed within a gun. It is operated by the infinitesimal expansion of the gun, followed instantly by contraction, from the gas generated by the discharge, which transmits an electric signal to a high-speed recording instrument...
...original lectures. Furthermore, from the stand-point of the publishers it is not practicable to bring out new editions with every advance in a subject. In consequence, text-books are often very much out-of-date. So, with the constant revision and revaluation of knowledge, the lecture is the instrument in education best designed to accomodate itself to the needs of our time...
...responsible, not the Labor Party." Mr. MacDonald then cataloged the aims of the Labor Party: To establish European peace on "an understanding of humane" men and women, "who have no cause for war, no cause for enmity"; to use the League of Nations "without reserve as the main instrument of securing international justice"; to recognize Russia and so end "the pompous folly of standing aloof from the Russian Government"; to encourage trade "from the coasts of Japan to the coasts of Ireland"; to deal with unemployment by creating a Labor Department "staffed by men and women of labor experience; experience...
...play mandolins, banjos, guitars, piano, saxophones, violins, 'cellos or any other instrument will try out for the 1927 Instrumental Clubs on Monday evening. For the trials each man will be asked to play a solo from memory and a piece at sight...